Vulnerability in Quassel-Irc Quassel
CVE-2015-2778
Quassel before 0.12-rc1 uses an incorrect data-type size when splitting a message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long CTCP query containing only multibyte characters.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12 (mailing-list)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/73305 (vdb-entry)